Dayanand Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana

Name :

Dayanand Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana

Address  :

Tagore Nagar, Civil Lines

Town  :

Ludhiana

State  :

Punjab

Country  :

INDIA

Post Code:

141001

Phone  :

0161 4688800

Fax  :

0161 2302620

Web URL  :

Available

Email  :

contact@dmch.edu

Description

Dayanand Medical College amp Hospital DMCH Ludhiana Punjab India is a 1326 bedded Inclusive 800 teaching beds tertiary care teaching hospital in North India The institution has an imposing complex of modern buildings and is equipped with all kinds of modern facilities for providing excellent care to the patients and training to the undergraduate and postgraduate students All the clinical departments along with the diagnostic laboratories provide roundtheclock service at the campus

History

Historical Background
Motivated by a devoted personality Dr Banarsi Dass Soni ExCaptIMS with a missionary zeal for medical education and patient care conceived the noble idea of providing much needed medical care to the general public This bloomed in the form of Arya Medical School in 1934started in a rented building in Civil Lines Ludhiana

In 1936 management of the medical school was handed over to the Arya Samaj Saban Bazar Ludhiana under the aegis of Arya Pratinidhi Sabha Punjab A separate Managing Body was nominated by the Managing Committee of Arya High School Ludhiana It was shifted to its own building now Dayanand Medical College amp Hospital College Campus in 1937

The institution was recognized for LSMF Licentiate of the Punjab State Medical Faculty in 1938 The following year the Managing Body decided that the Ludhiana Medical School should thereafter be called Arya Medical School and the hospital attached to it Dayanand Hospital

It was only in the year 1964 consistent with the policy of the Government that the Arya Medical School flowered into a fullfledged MBBS College which came to be known as Dayanand Medical College The management of this college was taken over by a galaxy of prominent people of Ludhiana who formed an organization known as the Managing Society of Dayanand Medical College amp Hospital Ludhiana and Late Shri HRDhanda a prominent industrialist of the town became its Founder President